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Re: poll <-> select

Subject: Re: poll <-> select
From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:10:12 -0800

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Martin-Gilles Lavoie wrote:

There's some code I need to port that contains calls to

poll

Although the man pages describe poll, it actually isn't available in current Darwin builds. I was directed to use

select

as a replacement. However, both these suckers are new territory to me. Can someone offer advises on wrapping select to act like poll, or on replacing poll altogether?

I haven't used poll() enough to be sure of the differences. I think they are fairly close, so that your program structure needn't change too much (but that's easy for me to say :-}). You might try to lay hands on a copy of Stevens's 1993 book "Advanced Programming in a Unix Environment" (Addison Wesley). Since some of this is new to you, this is a good general discussion of the job, and it has a couple of sections on poll() and select().

Regards,

Justin

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